1. George Edward Fell was an American surgeon and inventor.
15 Facts About George Fell
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George Fell was an early developer of artificial ventilation and investigated the physiology of electrocution, a line of research that led to Fell creating the final design for the first electric chair.
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Edward George Fell was born in Chippewa, Canada West on July 10,1849.
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George Fell was the son of James Wilkins Fell and Ann Elizabeth Hoffman.
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George Fell was a founding member of the American Microscopical Society and its president in 1890.
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George Fell married Annie Argo Duthie and they eventually had four daughters and one son together.
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George Fell received a medical degree from the University of Buffalo in 1882 and an ad eundem degree from Niagara University in 1886.
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George Fell was professor of physiology and microscopy at Niagara University as well as a physician at the Sisters of Charity Hospital in Buffalo up to 1895.
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George Fell was a surgeon at the Charity Eye Ear Nose and Throat Hospital Buffalo from 1910 to 1916.
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George Fell married Gertrude Luella Axtell of Spokane Washington in 1912 and moved to Chicago in 1917.
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George Fell died at home in Chicago, Illinois from an enlarged heart on July 29,1918.
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George Fell's experiments were the closest at the time to figuring out the causes of death by electrocution, although he was unaware of the other cause of death, the effect electricity was having on the nervous system.
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In 1889 the superintendent of New York Prisons, Austin Lathrop, had George Fell draw up the final plan for the chair, a simple oak construction with a retractable foot rest, restraints, and mounted electrodes.
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George Fell went against the Medico-Legal Society's recommendations, changing the position of the electrodes from foot and head to the head and the lower back.
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George Fell was one of the attending physicians at the electrocution, making sure there was proper contact with the electrodes.